There is just over a month remaining before the Presidential Election and the feeling today is Obama is poised for a second term. Despite overwhelming head winds from the Republican Parties efforts which begun the day Obama was sworn in for his first term. It has been confirmed that the right made a decision early that this President wouldn't reap all the benefits of being the President that brought the nation together in several areas of historical divide. Race, social classes, economic divisions and yes even religion.
The fact of the matter is, despite the calls from the right that the economic strain still being felt by most Americans is the President's fault, unless Congress and the Senate is willing to work with him, to meet him halfway, nothing will get done. You can't blame Obama for not trusting the Tea Party Congress when it comes to restoring the nations economy, that's like asking the guy shooting at you, "do you want me to stand up!?"
If it's their goal to ruin Obama, why would the President place his head on that chopping block and hold it still?
Most of the economic problems could have been solved with simple legislation that historically has been bi-partisan, no one party has all the answers when it comes to finding the right solutions. When your told, over and over again, my way or the highway, which is it?, most of the time, a reasonable person will choose the highway, knowing that choosing the other will defiantly lead to ruin.
I wonder,.. if Obama had a Congress and a Senate that had the best interest of the country in mind rather than their party, if this President did bring the races closer together, solve some of the deep seeded issues surrounding social classes, and economic divides, what would the history books reflect a hundred years from today. A black man was elected President Of The United States and fixed the most powerful free nations problems? How would that reflect on the previous Presidents holding that office, does that make them appear as failures?
When Obama won four years ago, Americans, black and white, were filled with the hope that this man would lead the way, lead this nation to a better place, bridge the gap between the races, he was someone African Americans could trust, and if he said, let it be, it was done. I think the right was well aware of these possibilities, I believe it was planned from the start to create this race based issue with the President, to create this narrative that President Obama was a divider and not someone who could unite the people.
I travel throughout right wing blogs all the time, some of the things I read from the people posting comments are some of the craziest things I've ever read in my life. It's always funny, the people on the right that have this label for Democrats, that liberals are all sheep following a blind leader off the cliff. The next thing I read from that commenter is "Obama wasn't born in the United States!", and "Obama is a Muslim!", talk about zombie minded followers.
Unless we have some polling station silly stunts, Obama will be the President Of The United States for another four year. As soon as the Republican Party figures out Mitt Romney was the problem and not the press, you'll see the servants turn on their master, Mitt Romney will suffer one of the greatest assaults from his own party you haven't seen since Clinton was on trial for impeachment.
The fact of the matter is, despite the calls from the right that the economic strain still being felt by most Americans is the President's fault, unless Congress and the Senate is willing to work with him, to meet him halfway, nothing will get done. You can't blame Obama for not trusting the Tea Party Congress when it comes to restoring the nations economy, that's like asking the guy shooting at you, "do you want me to stand up!?"
If it's their goal to ruin Obama, why would the President place his head on that chopping block and hold it still?
Most of the economic problems could have been solved with simple legislation that historically has been bi-partisan, no one party has all the answers when it comes to finding the right solutions. When your told, over and over again, my way or the highway, which is it?, most of the time, a reasonable person will choose the highway, knowing that choosing the other will defiantly lead to ruin.
I wonder,.. if Obama had a Congress and a Senate that had the best interest of the country in mind rather than their party, if this President did bring the races closer together, solve some of the deep seeded issues surrounding social classes, and economic divides, what would the history books reflect a hundred years from today. A black man was elected President Of The United States and fixed the most powerful free nations problems? How would that reflect on the previous Presidents holding that office, does that make them appear as failures?
When Obama won four years ago, Americans, black and white, were filled with the hope that this man would lead the way, lead this nation to a better place, bridge the gap between the races, he was someone African Americans could trust, and if he said, let it be, it was done. I think the right was well aware of these possibilities, I believe it was planned from the start to create this race based issue with the President, to create this narrative that President Obama was a divider and not someone who could unite the people.
I travel throughout right wing blogs all the time, some of the things I read from the people posting comments are some of the craziest things I've ever read in my life. It's always funny, the people on the right that have this label for Democrats, that liberals are all sheep following a blind leader off the cliff. The next thing I read from that commenter is "Obama wasn't born in the United States!", and "Obama is a Muslim!", talk about zombie minded followers.
Unless we have some polling station silly stunts, Obama will be the President Of The United States for another four year. As soon as the Republican Party figures out Mitt Romney was the problem and not the press, you'll see the servants turn on their master, Mitt Romney will suffer one of the greatest assaults from his own party you haven't seen since Clinton was on trial for impeachment.
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